Any person who, before, during or after seizure of any property by any police officer authorized to make searches and seizures, in order to prevent the seizure or securing of any property named in the warrant by such police officer, breaks, destroys or removes or causes the breaking, destruction or removal of the same, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both.

Cited. 165 Conn. 239; 173 C. 450. Cited. 26 CA 667. Cited. 30 Conn.Supp. 211. Cited. 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 44, 46; 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 176.